Author's Note:
Yay! I haven't written for this website in a long time, so I decided I would do that!
But for starters, I need to explain this alittle bit so it's not too confusing. Last week I went to this PFEW week thing at this college. Like said in the fic, it's like a business camp. You are placed in a group of 17 or 18 kids that are either going into their junior or senior year. You live in the college dorms and have a strict schedule of preparing your product (mine was cell phones) and whatnot. Basically what you do is: you're given a product, you have to name it, do the finances, the advertising and promoting for it. That was pretty much it. There were a lot of speakers and crazy bitch people that liked to yell at you if you were even 30 seconds late for something. But anyways. It's kind of confusing to explain, but this won't have a lot to do with the business stuff (because none of that made sense to me) so it'll just have to do with free time, and different people and experiences that happened.
To sum it up, it's about Roxas going to college with his tiwn brother, Sora, getting seperated from him, being stuck with Axel, and trying to survive the week of being a smart mouth, and anti-social. XD
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts at all (other than I bought the games and love them XD ).
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Chapter I: Part I: Arrival
Okay.
Somehow, I ended up at some place called PFEW. Whatever that is. I don't even know what it stands for, but that's alright.
All I know is that this is going to look good on a college application. And I know that it's one week of a business simulation. Basically, you get grouped and are told to make and sell a product. Sounds easy right?
Not.
So, here I was at some random college, with a whole shit load of people I didn't know. Well, other than my twin brother at least. And going to make a product. Right...
Anyways, I am starting to confuse myself, so I'm just going to continue.
My brother, Sora, had decided to drag me to this random place, to some city I had never heard of before, to make a business from some random program.
"Hey, Roxas!" Sora said as he ran back to me. "We have to be registered now! We could miss the dead line!"
That was one thing that always surprised me when it came to my brother: He was the most happy-go-lucky person ever, but had this thing for always being on time, if not early. In this case, we were almost two hours early. I won't ever understand it.
"Okay, okay. I'm coming." I said as I lagged behind. It was nine in the morning. I'm not a morning person. I can't be running around worry about being on time at nine in the morning. Just impossible for me. But Sora... Sora always had energy. It was pretty amazing.
Not.
He could just really annoying, really quickly in the morning. But, regardless, I still love my brother, and he does always forgive me after giving him a nice black and blue eye for being too obnoxious in the morning.
Anyways, we walked across campus, each of us with just our backpacks, and asked a worker about registration.
"Right at this table behind me. Give these guys your name and you'll have your room." The guy, who looked to be just, or not even, out of high school yet, said. We walked past him. Sora bounced up to the tables.
"Sora and Roxas Machin!" He said happily.
"Machin... Machin..." The guy, his name tag read Remy, said. "Ah ha! Oh..." He said and flipped through the pages again. Slowly, he looked up at us. This isn't good, I thought to myself. "You guys wanted a room together, didn't you?" Sora and I nodded. "Okay... Well, it seems there's been a bit of a mix up. You aren't in the same room..."
My jaw dropped.
Not with Sora? If I'm not with Sora then I'm going to go nuts! I'm not going to know anyone! I'm terrible at meeting new people!
"Is that okay with you guys? I'm not sure how this happened, but I can go find an advisor..."
"No no! This is fine!" Sora nudged me with his elbow. I looked at him and he smiled at me. "Don't worry about it. Really!"
Remy smiled slightly and nodded. "Okay, Sora... You'll be in room 312. Roxas, your room is 229. Here are your keys and off you go!"
"Thank you!" Sora said as he took his key. I nodded and took mine.
"By the way, as soon you have taken your stuff up to your room, you are to go to Macarthur Lounge, okay? Just down to the large grass area and ask one of the workers there and they will give you directions, okay?"
"Alright!"
Sora and I went back to the car, where our mother and father were standing waiting for us.
"What room you two boys in?" Our mother asked, enthusiastically.
"Sora and I got seperated somehow. We're even on different floors." I said reluctantly, trying to plead with her, using my eyes. I so didn't wanna be here.
"Well, then, that's alright!" She is excited like my brother. My dad is probably thinking 'I have to drive 4 more hours to get home... Can we leave yet?' Can you tell which one of us takes after the other?
"Jean, help the boys with their suitcases."
So, grudgingly, I hauled my suitcase up two large flights of stairs, while Sora and our dad took his stuff to the third floor. My mother, Naomi, walked with me to my room.
"Roxas, hunny?"
"Yeah, Mom?"
"You okay?"
"Yeah, Mom."
Out of the corner of my eye I saw her hand go up to her mouth. "Are you sure dear?"
I sighed, knowing that if I didn't tell her the truth then she would be at this until she was forced to leave. But that wouldn't stop her, she'd keep calling me as well. "I don't even want to be here. The only reasons I'm here are because of A) Sora, and B) something that'll look good on a college application. Those are the real reasons. And now I really don't want to be here if I'm not even rooming with Sora! Who knows if I'll get to see him at all the rest of the week?"
She smiled and we stopped infront of my dorm room. "Everything will be okay." She took the key from my hand, and unlocked the door. "You'll see him and you'll make new friends, and you'll be happy you came and did this, and you'll have the experience, and..."
"Okay, Mom, I get it. I'll try to have fun." She opened the door and we stepped in.
The room was fairly big, definetly not small. To my left, along the wall was a closet, a dresser vanity, another closet, and a desk. Along the right wall was a twin size bunk bed, a window and another desk. Inbetween the two desks in the back wall was another window.
"Look! Your roommate has already been here!" She pointed underneath the window between the bed and the desk, and sure enough, there was a large black suitcase and a backpack. I saw that his pillows were already on the bottom bunk. Awesome! That was the one thing I did want: top bunk.
"Well, lets set your stuff down, and head up to your brothers room." She handed the key back to me after my stuff was layed near the closest away from the door.
"Okay." I closed and locked the door, and my mom and I walked up the steps, only to meet my brother and father at the top.
"Let us go to the lounge area!" Sora said in a mock 'millionaire' voice. He straightened himself up and pretended to be holding a monocle up to his eye. I laughed. I knew what he was doing; trying to make me feel better. I know, this is all completely random, but I'm getting there. But just as a side note, my brother loves to make people laugh, and he's really good at it.
We headed towards the building, whatever it was called, using the directions the workers gave us. We also followed signs telling us where to go for registration. It was going to take about 25 minutes, and while we were doing that, our parents were to go follow some man to have a talk about what the week was like, or so said the balding man with the really creepy large smile.
We went through a bunch of crap, got some stuff needed for the week, a tee-shirt, got our pictures taken for our ID cards, and blah blah blah. Not important.
What was important is what happened while we were waiting around for our parents and the rest of the people to get here to start the campus tour.
While Sora and I were leaning against the window wall, I saw someone. I didn't know this someone, but he just kind of stood out. He had flaming red spikey hair, and brilliant green eyes, and underneath those eyes were two downward pointing triangles. He was really tall. I couldn't believe that he was in the age group of 15 to 18. He had this huge goofy grin on his face. He was laughing with another tall kid. The other kid wasn't nearly as tall as the other, but taller than me. He had a mohawk mullet type thing. All I can say about that kid is that he's lucky he can pull off an awkward looking hair due as that.
"Hey hey, Rox. That blond guy is my roommate! Oh what was his name..." Sora paused in thinking then shouted, "Oh yeah! Demyx!" Both guys looked over at us. I hung my head, somewhat embarassed that my brother would just shout someones name like that.
"Yeah?"
"Hey!" my brother said cheerfully. I was ready to do something quite violent to myself at this point in time.
"Hey Sora!" He said, waving his hand. Demyx ran over to us while the other guy slowly made his way over to us.
"Demyx, I'd like you to meet my twin brother, Roxas. Roxas, this is Demyx!" Sora jumped up and down. He needs to stop eating sugar, I thought. I shook Demyx's hand. He smiled at me, but it faded as he saw my blank expression. I mean, what can I say, I'm not very good with expressing myself.
"Is he okay? I mean, is he going to kill everyone?" Maybe just myself.
"Naw, he's just not a morning person and he's all cranky because there was a mix up and now we aren't rooming together."
"Awe, that's okay, Roxy! You'll make new friends!" I glared at Demyx.
"My name is Roxas, not Roxy."
"Oh so your name is Roxy. Very suiting for a pretty boy like yourself." said a cocky voice I had never heard before. But there in front of me was the tall kid with red hair, giving my a sly smirk.
"Ah ha. That was hilarious. Let me tell you how funny I found that." I said as I remained expressionless. The red haired guy stared back at me with amusement in his eyes. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence, the red guy started to laugh.
"You're great kid! The name's Axel, got it memorized?" He stuck out his hand. I shook it but only for a second to be polite. "So, what room you in, Roxy?"
"It's ROXAS! And why should I tell you?!"
"229."
"SORA! YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL HIM!" I shouted at my brother, who coward back slightly.
"No way! Looks like we're rooming, Roxy!"
I froze.
Oh...
Shit.
(x) (X) (x)
So after having a wonderful (no sarcasm, I promise. No really, I wanted to kill myself) time with Demyx and Axel, and after the tour of the campus and saying goodbye's, we were allowed to roam around for a little before we had a meeting. Finally getting a chance to seperate myself from the other three, I was able to run back to the dorm. I locked the door and sat on the bottom bunk. I sighed loudly and found a small escape.
My Ipod.
I put the headphones in my ears and played whatever song was first on full blast. If someone was going to come into the room I didn't want to hear them do so. I began to unpack my stuff and put them in to the right hand drawers of the built in vanity dresser. I hung up my suit (we were required to bring a nice outfit for some presentation we have to give at the end of the week), and anything else that needed hung up. I was setting up my toiletries when I was suddenly grabbed by the shoulder.
Startled, I shouted then turned. In the process, one of my headphones was ripped out of my ear.
Axel.
Maybe I did want to hear if someone was going to come into the room.
"Jesus, man! You gave me a fucking heartattack!" I rubbed my hands over my face and through my hair, trying to calm my heart a little.
"Sorry! You didn't hear me whenever I shouted though!" He looked at me from head to toe. And while he was doing that to me, I decided to do it to him too. He was wearing black, tight pants, and a black wife beater with a black zip up over it. Lots of black. Looks good with the red hair though... wait... I thought. I stopped my train of thought as I was brought back down my Axel speaking to me in a loud voice.
"You don't have to talk so damn loud! I'm not deaf!" I shouted at him.
"Sure seems like you are!" Axel sighed and rolled his eyes. "Listen, your brother sent me up here to get you for the meeting and I also wanted to... you know."
"What?"
"I wanted apologize. You seem pretty pissed. And you ran off without telling anyone where you were. We were all worried about you. And I felt like it was my fault..."
I relaxed a little from my tense position. He was... apologizing? He was just joking around, and I knew that. I'm just being a prick because my brother had to wake me up at 4 in the morning.
"No no, it's alright."
"Really? Awesome then! Lets go to the place, my little Roxy." Wow, was that a change in moods! He started to walk away and started to follow but then stopped.
"Now, if you really wanna piss me off, you can keep calling me that. But trust me, I've given even my happy-go-fucking-lucky brother a black eye or two for being too annoying. Don't toy with me." I warned.
"Oh ho ho! Someone's wearing their ovaries on the outside today!" Axel said, turning to give me a smile and a wink.
He has no idea how pissed off I was. He could probably (I hope he could) see the anger forming itself around me.
Axel's eyes were wide, and kind of frightened. "I kid! I kid! Please don't kill me!"
"You're lucky I don't have enough energy to do that." I stuck my headphones back in my ears and walked through the open door. I thought Axel said something else, but I didn't hear, fortunately.
I, honestly, didn't want to be mean to him, seeings how I going to be living with this kid for the next week, but all he did was say stuff that pissed me off.
Thinking back on that, I stopped in the hallway, turned off my Ipod, and waited.
"Axel, you coming?!" I shouted down the hall.
"Huh? Oh, yeah! Just a second!" I heard shout back from at the end of the hall. Then I saw him run after me. I guess he was actually running. He must of thought I was further away, because he just about ran into me.
"Oh! I didn't think you were going to wait for me." He said, scratching the back of his head. I shrugged my shoulders, but gave him a small smile. He gave me a huge smile. His entire face seemed to brighten up. That just made me smile more. I turned and continued walking. Axel slung his arm around my shoulders. I shot a glare up at him, which he didn't see.
"Yay! I'm glad we're friends now Roxy! This week is going to be great!" He smiled.
"No, it won't be great if you keep calling me 'Roxy'," I commented.
"But you're so pretty. It'd be a crime if I didn't call you that!"
I hung my head. I stopped right atop the stairs. "I'm not pretty. And if you think I'm pretty, then you must think my brother is pretty. Anyways, that's besides the point. I'm not pretty, or a pretty boy. So therefore, the name Roxy doesn't suit me in the slightest." I walked past a dumbstruck Axel and headed down the first flight of stairs.
"But you are pretty!" He shouted after me as I head him bound down the steps after me.
"No."
"Awe! But Roxy--!"
"Axel! Don't call me that." I said sternly.
I heard Axel make a hmpf-ing noise, and cross his arms. "But the name Roxas doesn't suit you at all! No matter what you have to say!"
"Axel, you've known me for an hour. How is it that you suddenly know me better than I know myself?" I stated as I stopped at the bottom of the steps, getting ready to open the door to go outside, and looked back up at Axel.
He stopped in the middle of the stairs and began to think. A hand up to the chin, the eyes up to the ceiling; I couldn't tell if he was just joking, or if this is how he really thought about things. He "Ah ha"-ed and pointed at me with a large grin on his face.
"Because I'm awesome at judging people... er... in a good way!" He said skepitcally.
"Right."
Pushing open the door, I felt the warm afternoon sunlight hit me. And right then, when everything seemed peaceful, and calm...
I knew everything really was going to suck.
This was going to be one hell of a week.
Author's note: Alright, this might be confusing, but I promise, I will have the second chapter soon and whatnot, and things will be explained better, but I just got hame and I have a headache, and I have to work tomorrow, and this is my first KH fanfic (even though I've been wanting to write one FOREVER) and and and I don't remember what else.
Please tell me if this was too confusing or something. I did it in two seperate days and I had to work and I'm tired XD. But I wanted to get it up here. But yeah, tell me if there are mistakes and if it's too confusing. I'll have the next chapter up soon, and hopefully that'll help!
Tootles!